All roads lead to Winnipeg;

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Winnipeg
It stands alone on the wide open Cana­dian
prairie. Winnipeg is the focal point
of a territory so vast that you must look
at the map of North America to appre­ciate
its full sweep.
The nearest metropolis, Minneapolis-
St. Paul, lies 450 miles to the southeast.
To the west, Regina is 350 miles distant
and Calgary and Edmonton are more
than 800 miles away. Like ancient
Rome, Winnipeg is the center to which
all roads lead over a large part of the
northern plains. Both of Canada's trans­continental
railway lines pass through
Winnipeg, and air lanes have inevitably
been drawn to this magnetic city, capi­tal
of the province of Manitoba.
Center of all that can be surveyed
for hundreds of miles around, Winni­peg
is big, bustling and on the go. The
farmland of southern Manitoba is rich,
its black soil well moistened by winter
snow and summer rains. The country
to the north has recently been yielding
ever increasing quantities of minerals.
The people of the province, energetic
and well educated, are ready to step
into the future. In such a setting, the
prospects of the Deloitte, Haskins &
Sells office in Winnipeg are bright in­deed.
(Before January 1, 1971 the firm
name was Deloitte, Plender, Haskins &
Sells.)
The most significant event in the
history of the Winnipeg Office of
DPH&S was the merger in 1954 with
Millar, Macdonald & Co., a well estab­lished
Winnipeg firm with thirteen
partners and a history going back to
1920. Until 1954 DPH&S had offices in
Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and Van­couver,
but it had become obvious that
if the firm were to progress it required
a broader base from which to operate.
The late Walter J. Macdonald, senior
partner of Millar, Macdonald & Co.,
and Arthur Foye, managing partner of
Haskins & Sells, arranged the merger.
It became official on June 1, 1954, with
Mr. Macdonald becoming senior part­ner
and Winnipeg becoming the
DPH&S head office for Canada. Since
that time Winnipeg has earned a repu­tation
as a DPH&S training ground. As
of 1971, three Canadian offices, in
Edmonton, Toronto and Prince George,
were headed by ex-Winnipeggers, and
all but two offices in Canada had at
least one alumnus of Winnipeg on their
rosters. Even the Canadian Wheat
Board, the government agency which
regulates Canada's premier export,
reached into the Winnipeg Office to re­cruit
its Executive Director in Gordon
Earl and its Treasurer in Peebles Kelly,
both former partners.
"We are an exporting province," says
Don Tomlin, partner in charge of the
Winnipeg Office. Don, a partner in the
Macdonald firm before the merger, is
a native of Winnipeg and a graduate of
the University of Manitoba, who de­clares
that he finds Winnipeg a most
satisfactory place in which to live and
work. He is cordial, energetic and deep­ly
engrossed in professional and com-
A few of the crew. In the reception area
of the new Winnipeg Office, partner
in charge Donald A. Tomlin (right front)
gathers some of the professional and
clerical staff for an informal portrait.
Youth predominates in this summer picture,
because student accountants are in the
city for university courses while many
experienced older people are
on a well-earned vacation.